SECTIONS 3535 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 3535

3535. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, physicians
and surgeons licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California
may use or employ physician assistants provided (1) each physician
assistant so used or employed is a graduate of an approved program
and is licensed by the committee, and (2) the scope of practice of
the physician assistant is the same as that which is approved by the
Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California for
physicians and surgeons supervising physician assistants in the same
or similar specialty.
(b) Any person who violates subdivision (a) shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding
six months, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars
($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.
(c) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2001.